Writing Studio Blog

Summer Booking Available The Writing Studio is open during Maymester and Summer Sessions! The Writing Studio’s last day for Spring 2021 writing consultation appointments is this coming Sunday, May 8.  We will reopen for Vanderbilt’s Maymester and Summer… Read More

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers! Thanks, too, to all who submitted their work for consideration. As always, the Morgan Award committee reviewed an impressive array of submissions from Vanderbilt’s first-year students and was honored by the… Read More

by Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Deann Armstrong, and Peter Capretto April 10, 2017   T.S. Eliot remarked that “April is the cruellest month.” In late March and early April, students are elbows deep into the academic year, and beginning to think about final exams as they struggle to solidify summer internship or… Read More

Making Moves that Matter: Argumentation and Word Choice in Academic Writing BY Deann Armstrong (Vanderbilt Writing Studio Fellow for 2016-2017)   Each fall, in workshops titled “Transitioning to College Writing,” Vanderbilt Writing Studio consultants teach “stasis,” “destabilization,” and “resolution” to rooms full of first-year students.1 These three terms, which we… Read More

The Writing Studio is glad to spread the word that Vanderbilt’s Center for Student Wellbeing has started a Writers’ Accountability Group for graduate students. See poster for details: Graduate Writers’ Accountability Groups  … Read More

By Faith Barter English Writing Fellow for Fall 2014, Vanderbilt Writing Studio As someone who thrives on the semester-long relationships built through classroom teaching, I began my semester as a Writing Studio Fellow with some trepidation. Would I spend the semester making tentative connections with clients I would… Read More

by Kathleen Deguzman English Writing Fellow for Spring 2014, Vanderbilt Writing Studio   According to enrollment information for the 2013 – 2014 academic year, international students constitute just over 9% of the Vanderbilt population.[1] At the Writing Studio, we often work with these students when they seek help on… Read More

  by Andy Hines English Writing Fellow for Fall 2013, Vanderbilt Writing Studio   Invoking the blank screen and the blinking cursor might as well be the writer’s equivalent of Kurtz’s whisper in Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness”: “The horror! The horror!” Why? They are the new site… Read More

By Megan Minarich (Fall 2009) With the growing trend toward interdisciplinarity in academic settings, one should embrace consulting across the disciplines. Engaging in discourse with someone who is writing in a discipline other than one’s own presents a unique opportunity for growth for both consultants and clients. Consulting across the… Read More

By Jennifer Holt, Katherine Fusco, and Gary Jaeger Writing Studio consultants are trained to be good generalist readers. Many of us have even found ourselves committed to the idea that consultants have a significant advantage in conversation when we lack expertise either about an entire field or about the specific… Read More